Phanchita Supasirithanawat (www.rcsails.com) from Bangkok Thailand sent me these pictures of a down-scaled Noux design built to the RG65 rules. It’s called a Noux65. There is a video here http://www.rcsails.com/noux65.htm

Here’s a picture of Per Robert Jentsch’s home-built Noux.

Steinar from Norway sent me some more pictures of his Noux boats. He has completed the first boat (see below), and is now building a second one. Another view of the spray-painting setup. The bulb is home-made, cast in a plaster mould. Here is Steinar’s first boat, now completed and painted. I posted some building [...]

Steinar from Norway wrote to tell me about his Noux project. He started out building a planked wooden Noux (above), but it ended up too heavy, so instead a wooden plug was made (below) Using this plug Steinar has now made a mould and moulded a few glassfiber Noux hulls. There’s no standard deck solution [...]

Boris from Switzerland sent me these two pictures of his Noux project which he has just started – thanks !

I’ve had a couple of requests for reduced shadows for the Noux by people wanting to home-build the boat using planking or other methods. Here are the lines with 1-6mm offset from the outer hull surface. A DXF file is attached to the pdf, click the small paper-clip next to the text to save the [...]

Pete Trimmer has been busy finishing his boat and sent me some pictures of his progress: “Well the FAT NOUX now looks more like a boat than a pin cushion” Aussie Green and Gold paint scheme.

The latest IOM building activity in Finland: a group of builders in Turku have moulded a hull mould from the original Noux plug + designed their own deck plug and made a deck mould.

Inspired by the drawings and design info available on my site, and by Michael Scharmers article on iom-nordic.org, Peter Trimmer (AUS) is putting together a wooden Noux. He sent me some pictures of his progress. Here is the plug for the bulb turned out of wood. A mould around this from plaster will be made [...]

An updated layout plan for the Noux-2 with the winch placed under the foredeck and a circular theme for the hatches. There’s also been a request for a 3D IGES model for the Noux-2 so here it is. Update 2006 May 03: Hsinli Liu ponted out some problems with the previous IGES file. I have [...]